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Chris McEnroe

AT&T's $250 Million Plan to Reduce High School Dropouts - Businessweek - 0 views

  • dropout prevention programs that include counseling, technology training, mentoring, and other ways to both keep kids in school and get them ready for college.
  • data released at today’s summit showing that the nation’s high school graduation rate has improved to 75.5 percent. That’s an increase of 3.5 percentage points nationally from 2001 to 2009
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation to boost Newark schools, which has funded initiatives from Mandarin classes to iPads for autistic students
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    Where should ATT place its bets? Is engagement the key to stemming dropouts? Can VI be used to design richly affective environments that promote social efficacy (a spoon full of sugar) while succeeding at skill development and knowledge transfer (the medicine)?
Soomi Hong

Logged on, checked out... of relationships? - 2 views

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    The study, published in the March issue of the journal <Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine showed that, for both periods, adolescents who spend more time watching TV or playing video games were more likely to report lower quality relationships compared with those who logged less screen time.
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